Typically accessing a database consists roughly of the following steps:
Here is a small walkthrough with sample code. More examples are available in the BaseTen Subversion repository and at http://basetenframework.org.
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <BaseTen/BaseTen.h>
int main (int argc, char** argv)
{
NSURL* databaseURI = [NSURL URLWithString: @"pgsql://username@localhost/database"];
BXDatabaseContext* ctx = [[BXDatabaseContext alloc] initWithDatabaseURI: databaseURI];
[ctx connectSync: NULL];
BXEntityDescription* entity = [[ctx databaseObjectModel] entityForTable: @"table"];
NSArray* result = [ctx executeFetchForEntity: entity withPredicate: nil error: NULL];
for (BXDatabaseObject* object in result)
{
NSLog (@"Object ID: %@ column: %@",
[[object objectID] URIRepresentation], [object valueForKey: @"column"]);
}
NSDictionary* values = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject: @"newValue" forKey: @"column"];
BXDatabaseObject* newObject = [ctx createObjectForEntity: entity withFieldValues: values error: NULL];
NSLog (@"new object: %@", newObject);
return 0;
}
The designated initializer of BXDatabaseContext is -initWithDatabaseURI:. -init is also available but the context does require an URI before connecting.
BXDatabaseContext requires the URI to be formatted as follows:
pgsql://username:password@host/database_name
. Currently, as PostgreSQL is the only supported database, only pgsql://
URIs are allowed. In command line tools, all parameters are required except for the password, the need for which depends on the database configuration.
Various methods in BXDatabaseContext take a double pointer to an NSError object as a parameter. if the called method fails, the NSError will be set on return. If the parameter is NULL, the default error handler raises a BXException. BXDatabaseContext's delegate may change this behaviour.
[ctx connectSync: NULL];
Connection to the database may be made synchronously using the method -connectSync. Applications that use an NSRunLoop also have the option to use -connectAsync. The method returns immediately. When the connection attempt has finished, the context's delegate will be called and notifications will be posted to the context's notification center (accessed with -notificationCenter).
In AppKit applications, the easiest way to connect to the database is to use the IBAction -connect:. In addition to attempting the connection asynchronously, it also presents a number of panels to the user, if some required information is missing from the URI. The panels allow the user to specify their username, password and the database host making URIs like pgsql:///database_name
allowed. Additionally a kBXConnectionSetupAlertDidEndNotification will be posted when the user dismisses an alert panel, which is presented on failure.
Since NULL is passed in place of an NSError double pointer, a BXException will be thrown on error. See BXDatabaseContext's documentation for details on error handling.
BXEntityDescription* entity = [[ctx databaseObjectModel] entityForTable: @"table"];
BXEntityDescriptions are used to specify tables for fetches. For getting a specific entity description, BXDatabaseObjectModel has two methods: -entityForTable: and -entityForTable:inSchema:. Entity descriptions may be accessed before making a connection in which case the database context will check their existence on connect.
NSPredicates are created by various Cocoa objects and may be passed directly to BXDatabaseContext. One way to create ad-hoc predicates is by using NSPredicate's method -predicateWithFormat:. In this example, we fetch all the objects instead of filtering them, though.
NSArray* result = [ctx executeFetchForEntity: entity withPredicate: nil error: NULL];
BXDatabaseContext's method -executeFetchForEntity:withPredicate:error: and its variations may be used to fetch objects from the database. The method takes a BXEntityDescription and an NSPredicate and performs a fetch synchronously. The fetched objects are returned in an NSArray.
for (BXDatabaseObject* object in result)
*{
NSLog (@"Object ID: %@ column: %@",
[[object objectID] URIRepresentation], [object valueForKey: @"column"]);
*}
Since BXDatabaseObject conforms to NSKeyValueObserving, methods -valueForKey: and -setValue:forKey: are available. See Accessing object values for details.
NSDictionary* values = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject: @"newValue" forKey: @"column"];
BXDatabaseObject* newObject = [ctx createObjectForEntity: entity withFieldValues: values error: NULL];
NSLog (@"new object: %@", newObject);
New rows are inserted with BXDatabaseContext's method -createObjectForEntity:withFieldValues:error:. The values dictionary may contain initial values for both attributes and to-one relationships in case the target entity contains the foreign key.


These are quick tutorials to help explain the process of setting up and distributing InvisionApp prototypes as well as submitting to box.psu.edu and ELMSLN Studio.
InVision Video Tutorial (24:08)
If you are working from photos that are not the correct size and aspect ratio, you will need to crop them to prepare them for upload.
There are free image cropping tools included with Mac and Windows operating systems:
To keep organized, it helps to number your files. If you forgot an image and include it after the fact, you can use a decimal instead of renaming all of the files.
In the main navigation bar, choose the ellipsis button (three horizontal dots) and choose Download Prototype. Choose to download the project as a ZIP file.


03 February 1998
Disease Outbreak Reported
The Ministry of Health has informed WHO of 5 laboratory confirmed cases of cholera identified in Beira City, Sofala Province. The poor sanitary conditions in Beira had deteriorated following the storm which affected the central region of the country in January. As Beira is a port city with direct land communication to neighbouring countries, (the "Beira corridor"), the Ministry of Health and WHO advise those countries to strengthen their epidemiological surveillance for early detection of cases and reinforce their preparedness activities.


Serenity with Cucumber
Cucumber is a popular tool for automating BDD-style acceptance criteria. Teams that practice BDD have conversations about business rules and examples to better understand the problem they are solving. Some of these examples can be transformed into automated acceptance criteria.
Teams that use Cucumber express these acceptance criteria in a natural, human-readable form using the given..when..then
structure:
Scenario: Cash withdrawal
Given Clive has $1000 in his Current account
When he withdraws $100 in cash
Then his remaining balance should be $900
This format is known as 'Gherkin', and is widely used in Cucumber and other Cucumber-based BDD tools such as SpecFlow (for .NET) and Behave (for Python). Gherkin is a flexible, highly readable format that can be written collaboratively with product owners to ensure that everyone is on the same page. The loosely-structured 'Given-When-Then' format helps people focus on what they are trying to achieve, and how they will know when they get it.
Gherkin also supports tabular data formats, which is a useful and concise way of representing many domain concepts:
Scenario: Transferring funds between internal accounts
Given Clive has the following accounts:
| Account | Balance |
| Current | 1000 |
| Savings | 2000 |
When he transfers $100 from his Current account to his Savings account
Then his new account balances should be:
| Account | Balance |
| Current | 900 |
| Savings | 2100 |
Sometimes tables can be used to summarise several different examples of the same scenario. For example, the following scenario illustrates the fee structure for different account types:
Scenario Outline: Account Fees for different types of account
Given Clive has an <Account Type> account with a balance of <Sample Balance>
When the monthly fees are calculated
Then a <Monthly Fee> monthly fee of <Sample Fee> should be deducted
Examples:
| Account Type | Monthly Fee | Sample Balance | Sample Fee |
| Current | $1.50 | 1000 | 1.50 |
| Savings | $0.00 | 1000 | 0.00 |
| Investment | 0.25% | 1000 | 2.50 |
Serenity BDD integrates very smoothly with Cucumber. When you implement your Cucumber scenarios with Serenity BDD, you benefit from the powerful Serenity reporting features, which are fine-tuned to work well with Cucumber. But Serenity also makes it easier to write cleaner, more maintainable test automation code.
Using Cucumber with Serenity BDD
There are currently two commonly-used versions of Cucumber: Cucumber 2 and Cucumber 4. While they both support the same Gherkin notation, the way you implement the steps is a little different in each version. When you use Serenity with Cucumber, you use a different dependency depending on the version of Cucumber you want to use.
New versions come out regularly: you can find out what the latest stable versions are on the Serenity BDD Github home page.
Working with Cucumber 2
To get started with Cucumber 2 and Serenity, you will need to add the Serenity Cucumber plugin to your project. In Maven, just add the following dependencies to your pom.xml file:
<dependency>
<groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
<artifactId>serenity-core</artifactId>
<version>${serenity.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
<artifactId>serenity-junit</artifactId>
<version>${serenity.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
<artifactId>serenity-cucumber</artifactId>
<version>${serenity.cucumber.version}</version>
</dependency>
The equivalent in Gradle is:
testCompile 'net.serenity-bdd:core:2.0.64'
testCompile 'net.serenity-bdd:serenity-junit:2.0.64'
testCompile 'net.serenity-bdd:serenity-cucumber:2.0.19'
Working with Cucumber 4
The Cucumber 4 dependency setup is a bit more complicated, as you need to override the Cucumber 2 dependency in Serenity core. In Maven, you need add the following dependency configuration to your pom.xml file:
<dependency>
<groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
<artifactId>serenity-core</artifactId>
<version>${serenity.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
<artifactId>serenity-screenplay</artifactId>
<version>${serenity.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-core</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.serenity-bdd</groupId>
<artifactId>serenity-cucumber4</artifactId>
<version>${serenity.cucumber4.version}</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>4.2.0</version>
</dependency>
The equivalent in Gradle is:
configurations.all {
resolutionStrategy {
force "io.cucumber:cucumber-core:4.2.0"
}
}
dependencies {
testCompile "net.serenity-bdd:serenity-core:2.0.64",
"net.serenity-bdd:serenity-cucumber4:1.0.19",
"io.cucumber:cucumber-core:4.2.0",
"io.cucumber:cucumber-junit:4.2.0"
// Other dependencies
testCompile "org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.5",
"junit:junit:4.12",
"org.assertj:assertj-core:1.7.0"
}
Using the Cucumber Maven Archetype
If you are starting from scratch, a Cucumber archetype for Cucumber 2 is available to help you jumpstart a new project.
As usual, you can run mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=serenity
from the command line
and then select the net.serenity-bdd:serenity-cucumber-archetype
archetype from the proposed list of archetypes.
Or you can use your favourite IDE to generate a new Maven project using an archetype.
Writing Executable Specifications with Cucumber and Serenity
In Cucumber, scenarios are stored in Feature Files, which contain an overall description of a feature as well as a number of scenarios.
The Feature File for the first example we saw earlier is called cash_withdrawals.feature
, and looks something like this:
Feature: Cash Withdrawals
Scenario: Cash withdrawal
Given Clive has $1000 in his Current account
When he withdraws $100 in cash
Then his remaining balance should be $900
Organising your feature files
The simplest way to organise your Serenity/Cucumber feature files is to place them in the src/test/resources/features
directory.
But placing all your feature files in one directory can become messy as your project grows. To make the feature files easier to manage, in Serenity projects we typically organise the feature files in sub-directories that reflect the higher-level requirements. You can think of each subdirectory as a chapter or section heading in your living documentation, with the features grouped inside these sections.
When you run the tests with Serenity, you use the CucumberWithSerenity
test runner.
You also need to use the @CucumberOptions
class to provide the root directory where the feature files can be found.
A simple test runner looks like this:
@RunWith(CucumberWithSerenity.class) (1)
@CucumberOptions(
features="src/test/resources/features", (2)
glue = "net.serenity_bdd.samples") (3)
public class CashWithdrawals {
}
-
Serenity Cucumber feature files need the
CucumberWithSerenity
test runner. -
The
features
attribute indicates where to look for the feature files, and can be a path to a directory or to a specific feature file -
The
glue
attribute tells Cucumber where to find the Step Definition classes
Cucumber Step definitions
In Cucumber, each line of the Gherkin scenario maps to a method in a Java class, known as a 'Step Definition'.
These use annotations like @Given
, @When
and @Then
match lines in the scenario to Java methods.
In this section, we will briefly look at how to write your own Cucumber step definitions in both Cucumber 2 and Cucumber 4.
Writing Step Definitions in Cucumber 2
In Cucumber 2, you define simple regular expressions to indicate parameters that will be passed into the methods. The regular expressions indicate where you want to pass in a parameter. For example, in the following method, we use three regular expressions to match the name of the customer, the current account balance, and the account type:
@Given("^(.*) has \\$(\\d+) in his (.*) account$")
public void in_his_current_account(String customer, int balance, String accountType) {
}
Simple type conversions
As you can see in the previous code, Cucumber will convert the expressions you pass automatically into basic types such as String
, int
and float
. You can also convert to enums, which can make your tests a bit more reliable. For example, we could create an enum
to represent the different account types:
public enum AccountType {
Current, Savings, Investment
}
We could then use this enum as a parameter for the step definition method: Cucumber will do the conversion automatically:
@Given("^(.*) has \\$(\\d+) in his (.*) account$")
public void in_his_current_account(String customer, int balance, AccountType accountType) {
}
Working with lists and tables
Lists and tables are often used to make scenarios more concise and readable. In the following step, we pass in a list of bank accounts:
Given Clive has the following accounts:
| Account | Balance |
| Current | 1000 |
| Savings | 2000 |
There are a few ways we can pass this table into our step definition.
One is to use the Cucumber DataTable
class, which provides a number of helper methods to extract values from the table, or to convert the rows into a more usable form.
For example, suppose you had the following simple Java class to represent the account entries in the tables:
class AccountDetails {
private final AccountType account;
private final int balance;
public AccountDetails(AccountType account, int balance) {
this.account = account;
this.balance = balance;
}
public AccountType getAccount() {
return account;
}
public int getBalance() {
return balance;
}
}
You could pass the table into your step definition method as a DataTable
, and then use the asList()
method to convert the entries to a list of AccountDetails
:
@Given("^Clive has the following accounts:$")
public void cliveHasTheFollowingAccounts(DataTable accounts) {
List<AccountDetails> accountDetails = accounts.asList(AccountDetails.class);
...
}
Cucumber also allows you to bypass the DataTable
class and pass in a list of domain objects. So the step definition method shown above could be simplified as follows:
@Given("^Clive has the following accounts:$")
public void cliveHasTheFollowingAccounts(List<AccountDetails> accountDetails) {
...
}
Another approach is to pass in a list of maps; each map represents one of the rows in the table, with the column headers as the keys:
@Given("^Clive has the following accounts:$")
public void cliveHasTheFollowingAccounts(List<Map<String,String>> accountDetails) {
}
This approach can be useful when you use a table to override default values. For example, an Account object might have many more fields than simply the account and balance fields, but in our example above we could safely use sensible default values for all the other fields, only overriding the values we are really interested in.
Writing Step Definitions in Cucumber 4
In Cucumber 4, you can use regular expressions, but also the more readable Cucumber Expressions notation.
Cucumber Expressions use tokens surrounded by curly brackets such as "{string}","{word}","{int}" and "{float}" to represent common types. {string} represents a sequence of characters enclosed in quotes (such as "red car"
), whereas {word} matches a word containing no whitespaces and not enclosed in quotes (red
, but not "red"
or red green
). The anonymous parameter type ("{}") can be used to match any sequence of characters, like the "(.*)" wildcard regular expression.
The following step definition shows how we could use Cucumber Expressions for the "Given Clive has $1000 in his Current account" step we saw earlier:
@Given("{word} has ${int} in his {word} account")
public void in_his_current_account(String customer, int balance, String accountType) {
}
Simple type conversions
Cucumber 4 does not automatically convert parameters to enums and domain classes the way Cucumber 2 does - a little more configuration is required. If you want to pass in an AccountType
enum value directly, you need to define a custom parameter type.
Each custom parameter type has a name you can define, which makes the step definitions much more readable. For instance, we could define a custom parameter type called AccountType
, and include it in the step definition annotation like this:
@Given("{word} has ${int} in his {AccountType} account")
public void in_his_current_account(String customer,
int balance,
AccountType accountType) {
}
However for this to work, we need to declare the AccountType
custom parameter in the Cucumber type registry. We do this by adding an implementation of the TypeRegistryConfigurer
class to our step definitions and defining a custom parameter type for our enum, as shown here:
public class TypeRegistryConfiguration implements TypeRegistryConfigurer {
@Override
public Locale locale() {
return ENGLISH;
}
@Override
public void configureTypeRegistry(TypeRegistry typeRegistry) {
typeRegistry.defineParameterType(ParameterType.fromEnum(AccountType.class));
}
}
Converting parameters to custom classes
We can also use the Cucumber type registry to convert parameters to domain objects. This helps reduce boiler-plate code in our step definitions and makes the Cucumber Expressions more readable.
One common use of this feature is in Screenplay tests, where we can define a custom {actor} parameter type. Normally, to convert the name of an actor to a Screenplay actor, we would use the Actor.named()
method, like this:
@Given("{word} has ${int} in his {AccountType} account")
public void in_his_current_account(String customerName,
int balance,
AccountType accountType) {
Actor customer = Actor.named(customerName);
customer.attemptsTo(
OpenABankAccount.ofType(accountType).withABalanceOf(balance)
);
...
}
In Cucumber 4, we can define a custom parameter type so that we can pass a Screenplay actor directly into a step definition method, like this:
@Given("{actor} has ${int} in his {AccountType} account")
public void in_his_current_account(Actor customer,
int balance,
AccountType accountType) {
customer.attemptsTo(
OpenABankAccount.ofType(accountType).withABalanceOf(balance)
);
}
To do this, we need to include the actor creation logic in the Cucumber Type Registry, by using the defineParameterType()
method in the TypeRegistryConfiguration
class:
public class TypeRegistryConfiguration implements TypeRegistryConfigurer {
@Override
public Locale locale() { return ENGLISH; }
@Override
public void configureTypeRegistry(TypeRegistry typeRegistry) {
typeRegistry.defineParameterType(new ParameterType<>(
"actor", (1)
".*", (2)
Actor.class, (3)
(String actorName) -> Actor.named(actorName))) (4)
);
}
}
-
The name of the custom parameter
-
The regular expression used to capture the parameter value
-
The parameter type
-
A lambda expression to convert the String parameter to the target type
Working with data tables
In Cucumber 2, it is relatively easy to pass a data table to a step definition method as a list of domain objects. We saw this earlier with the following step:
Given Clive has the following accounts:
| Account | Balance |
| Current | 1000 |
| Savings | 2000 |
In Cucumber 4, as in Cucumber 2, we can pass in a DataTable
or a list of maps:
@Given("^Clive has the following accounts:$")
public void hasTheFollowingAccounts(List<Map<String,String>> accounts) {
....
}
However if we want to pass in a list of domain objects, or convert a DataTable
to a domain object or a list of domain objects, we need to do a little more work.
Converting Data Table rows to objects
Probably the simplest approach is to configure Cucumber to convert data table entries into Java objects using an ObjectMapper. Cucumber comes bundled with the Jackson ObjectMapper
, which converts Cucumber table entries to JSON, and then into Java. This is relatively easy to set up, but it does need a few minor tweaks to your Gherkin and Java code.
First of all, Jackson needs a default constructor in the classes it creates. So we need to refactor the AccountDetails
class to look like this:
public class AccountDetails {
private AccountType account;
private int balance;
public AccountDetails(AccountType account, int balance) {
this.account = account;
this.balance = balance;
}
public AccountDetails() {} (1)
public AccountType getAccount() {
return account;
}
public int getBalance() {
return balance;
}
}
-
Jackson needs a default constructor to work correctly
Secondly, the column names need to match the Java field names exactly. One option is to write the column headings in lower case, like this:
Given Clive has the following accounts:
| account | balance |
| Current | 1000 |
| Savings | 2000 |
The other option is to use the @JsonProperty
annotation to change the default field names used by Jackson:
public class AccountDetails {
private AccountType account;
private int balance;
public AccountDetails(AccountType account, int balance) {
this.account = account;
this.balance = balance;
}
public AccountDetails() {}
@JsonProperty("Account")
public AccountType getAccount() {
return account;
}
@JsonProperty("Balance")
public int getBalance() {
return balance;
}
}
The last thing we need to do is to register the ObjectMapper with the Cucumber type registry.
This involves writing a Transformer class that implements the TableEntryByTypeTransformer
interface. One that uses the bundled Jackson ObjectMapper
class looks like this:
class Transformer implements TableEntryByTypeTransformer {
ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
@Override
public <T> T transform(Map<String, String> map,
Class<T> aClass,
TableCellByTypeTransformer typeTransformer) {
return objectMapper.convertValue(map, aClass);
}
}
Next, we need to register the transformer by adding the following code to the configureTypeRegistry()
method we saw earlier:
Transformer transformer = new Transformer();
typeRegistry.setDefaultDataTableEntryTransformer(transformer);
We can now pass the list of account details into the step definition method as a list of AccountDetail
objects:
@Given("Clive has the following accounts:")
public void cliveHasTheFollowingAccounts(List<AccountDetails> accounts) {
}
Using Serenity step libraries in Cucumber Step definitions
It is perfectly possible to call classic test automation code directly in your step definition methods. In this case, Serenity will only report on the Given..When..Then steps, and leave you full control of the underlying code.
Many teams however find it useful to organise their tests into reusable components and domain layer classes. And Serenity provides many ways to help with this.
Serenity Step Libraries integrate smoothly into Cucumber Step Definition files;
all you need to do is to annotate a step library variable with the @Steps
annotation. For example, suppose our banking application has a set of web services to handle account balances and withdrawals. We could wrap these web service calls in Serenity Action classes, and inject these action classes into the step definition classes using the Serenity @Steps
annotation, e.g.
public class CashWithdrawalsStepDefinitions {
@Steps
CreateAccountAction createAnAccount;
@Given("{word} has ${int} in his {word} account")
public void in_his_current_account(String customer,
int balance,
String accountType) {
createAnAccount.forCustomer(customer)
.ofType(accountType)
.withABalanceOf(balance);
}
...
}
The Action class uses a builder pattern for better readability.
We use the @Step
annotation on the last method to ensure that we get a complete description of the step in our reports:
public class CreateAccountAction {
String customerName;
String accountType;
public CreateAccountAction forCustomer(String customerName) {
this.customerName = customerName;
return this;
}
public CreateAccountAction ofType(String accountType) {
this.accountType = accountType;
return this;
}
@Step("Create a #accountType account for customer #customerName with a balance of ${0}")
public int withABalanceOf(int balance) {
// Call the appropriate web service and return the account unique ID
}
}
The other step definition methods would use similar step libraries.
Some teams group their step libraries by theme or end point (for example, they might place all the web service calls related to managing a bank account in a single BankAccountActions
step library). Others prefer to enforce a stricter separation of concerns, and have a single class per action (this approach is know as the Action Classes pattern), as illustrated here:
public class CashWithdrawalsStepDefinitions {
@Steps
CreateAccountAction createAnAccount;
@Steps
WithdrawAction withdraw;
@Steps
AccountBalanceAction accountBalance;
int accountIdentifier;
@Given("{word} has ${int} in his {word} account")
public void in_his_current_account(String customer, int balance, String accountType) {
accountIdentifier = createAnAccount.forCustomer(customer).ofType(accountType).withABalanceOf(balance);
}
@When("he withdraws ${int} in cash")
public void he_withdraws_in_cash(int withdrawal) {
withdraw.fromAccount(accountIdentifier).theSumOf(withdrawal);
}
@Then("his remaining balance should be ${int}")
public void his_remaining_balance_should_be(int expectedBalance) {
assertThat(accountBalance.forAccount(accountIdentifier)).isEqualTo(expectedBalance);
}
}
Integrating with Serenity Page Objects
Integration Cucumber with Serenity UI tests is also easy. Unlike with JUnit, you don’t need to declare an @Managed
WebDriver instance in your tests; Serenity will automatically instantiate a driver on demand.
For example, the following scenario is a very simple example of using a search engine:
Feature: Search by keyword
Scenario: Search for terms by a single keyword
Given Serge is on the Search page
When he searches by "Tomato"
Then he should only see search results containing the word "Tomato"
We could use Serenity Page Objects or UI Action Classes to model the UI interactions.
For example, the following Serenity PageObject
models the DuckDuckGo home page:
@DefaultUrl("https://duckduckgo.com")
public class SearchPage extends PageObject {
public void searchBy(String keyword) {
$("#search_form_input_homepage").sendKeys(keyword, Keys.ENTER);
}
}
And this one allows us to query the search results:
public class ResultsPage extends PageObject {
public List<String> getSearchResultTitles() {
return findAll(".results .result__title")
.stream()
.map(WebElementFacade::getTextContent)
.collect(Collectors.toList());
}
}
We could use both of these page objects directly in our Cucumber step definition code, as shown here:
public class SearchStepDefinitions {
SearchPage searchPage;
ResultsPage resultsPage;
@Given("Serge is on the Search page")
public void serge_is_on_the_Search_page() {
searchPage.open();
}
@When("he searches by {string}")
public void he_searches_by(String keyword) {
searchPage.searchBy(keyword);
}
@Then("he should only see search results containing the word {string}")
public void he_should_only_see_search_results_containing_the_word(String expectedKeyword) {
resultsPage.getSearchResultTitles().forEach(
title -> assertThat(title).containsIgnoringCase(expectedKeyword)
);
}
}
Alternatively, we could use Action Classes or Step Libraries to encapsulate the UI logic. In both cases, Serenity will instantiate the WebDriver instance for us the first time a page object is invoked.
Configuring Cucumber and Serenity
Serenity provides a number of configuration options when using Cucumber.
Maintaining the browser open for the entire feature
Reopening a browser session for each scenario can slow down your tests.
If you want Serenity to keep the browser open for the duration of a feature, you can set the following property in your serenity.properties
or serenity.conf
file:
serenity.restart.for.each = feature
Maintaining state between scenarios
You may also wish to maintain state between scenarios. By default, Serenity will use new step libraries and action classes for each scenario. However, if you want to share data between the scenarios of a feature, you can use the following option:
serenity.maintain.session = true
With this value set, you can now use either the @Shared
annotation, or the @Steps(shared=true)
. For example, suppose that the CreateAccountAction
needs to retrieve a security token before making any calls, but that it only needs to do this once.
We could tell Serenity to maintain the same CreateAccountAction
step library for all the scenarios in a feature file like this:
@Shared
CreateAccountAction createAnAccount;
Integrating Cucumber with Serenity Screenplay
The Screenplay Pattern is a popular technique among experienced test automation practitioners that makes it easier to write cleaner, more maintainable test automation code at scale.
Defining the Screenplay cast
When we use Screenplay with Cucumber, it is possible to define an actor programmatically as we do in JUnit tests. However it is more common to pass the name of the actor dynamically to the step definition methods. We do this using the OnStage
class.
In Cucumber, Serenity needs a cast of actors to draw on in the various step definitions. Each actor is uniquely identified by their name. We set this up by calling the setTheStage()
method in a @Before
-annotated method:
@Before
public void prepareTests() {
OnState.setTheStage(new OnlineCast());
}
The OnlineCast
is a cast of actors with the ability to browse the web. For more sophisticated actor setups, we can use the Cast.whereEveryoneCan()
method:
@Before
public void prepareTests() {
OnState.setTheStage(OnlineCast.whereEveryoneCan(CallAnApi.at(ADMIN_REST_URL)));
}
Invoking an actor
Once we have set up the cast, any step can refer to an actor by name.
We can do this using the OnStage.theActorCalled()
method, as shown below:
@Given("{word} has ${int} in his {AccountType} account")
public void in_his_current_account(String customerName,
int balance,
AccountType accountType) {
OnStage.theActorCalled(customerName).attemptsTo(
OpenABankAccount.ofType(accountType).withABalanceOf(balance)
);
...
}
We often use a static import to simplify this code:
static import net.serenitybdd.screenplay.actors.OnStage.theActorCalled;
@Given("{word} has ${int} in his {AccountType} account")
public void in_his_current_account(String customerName,
int balance,
AccountType accountType) {
theActorCalled(customerName).attemptsTo(
OpenABankAccount.ofType(accountType).withABalanceOf(balance)
);
...
}
If we do not have the name of the actor available within a step definition, we can also use the theActorInTheSpotlight()
method, e.g.
@When("s?he filters her list to show only (.*) tasks")
public void filters_tasks_by(TodoStatusFilter status) {
OnStage.theActorInTheSpotlight().attemptsTo(FilterItems.toShow(status));
}
A more short-hand way of writing this code is to use the OnStage.withCurrentActor()
method:
@When("s?he filters her list to show only (.*) tasks")
public void filters_tasks_by(TodoStatusFilter status) {
withCurrentActor(
FilterItems.toShow(status)
);
}
Using Actors in Hook methods
If you need to perform UI actions in test setup (for example, to log on to an application), you may not know the name of the actor who will be first mentioned in the Gherkin steps. You can still use an actor in this case, but you need to use the OnStage.aNewActor()
method.
@Before(order=1)
public void set_the_stage() {
OnStage.setTheStage(new OnlineCast());
}
@Before(order=2)
public void openApplication() {
OnStage.aNewActor().attemptsTo(
OpenTheTodoMVCApplication.onTheHomePage()
);
}
The aNewActor()
method will create a new, unnamed actor, who will be associated with the first actor referred to by name in the subsequent steps.


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Texas university attorney's use of N-word during free-speech event prompts resignation
by Brie StimsonA University of North Texas attorney resigned Friday less than 24 hours after she used a racial slur while giving examples of free speech at an event called “When Hate Comes to Campus.”
Assistant general counsel Caitlin Sewell was speaking in a panel discussion Thursday when she used the N-word word, FOX 4 of Dallas reported.
“You know, you can say a lot of offensive things in here because it’s impossible to talk about the First Amendment without saying horrible things," she said in front of an audience.  That alone, that’s protected speech.”
ACTOR APOLOGIZES FOR USING N-WORD DURING PANEL DISCUSSION
Several members of the audience became outraged, questioning Sewell about why she would choose to say the N-word but then later censor herself instead of using the F-word.
Sewell apologized immediately and said she didn’t mean to offend anyone.
“I understand what she’s trying to say, in that we have the right to say anything in this country, however, she explicitly decided to censor the F-word, and after that happened, it made me feel as though she just negated my entire identity,” UNT Student Government Association President Yolian Ogbu said, according to FOX 4.
Ogbu and Cameron Combs, president of UNT’s Black Student Union, called for Sewell’s resignation and by Friday morning she had resigned.
“We strongly believe in a culture that embraces, and vehemently defends inclusion. While Ms. Sewell was trying to make a point about First Amendment speech, the references used are never condoned in our community, which prides itself in our diversity and caring nature,” the president wrote in the statement.
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The president's statement said the school plans to engage in a dialogue with students and campus leaders about fostering a “culture of diversity," FOX 4 reported.


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They say an elephant never forgets. Today we're going to learn about when, if ever, a computer forgets, and how memory is stored.
Not only is my brother a talented artist, but he's also a GENIUS. No really, He's an apple genius, and over the holiday break, I had the pleasure of his expertise in upgrading my laptop's RAM, doubling it's memory capacity. So, what does that mean for my laptop?
The sticks that were upgraded on my computer are called RAM. RAM is Random Access Memory. What RAM does is allow for the computer to (do X). What is helpful to understand in this context is how data is stored on a computer. Every piece of data on a computer starts out as a bit. a Bit is comprised on binary code, or as we saw from the matrix,<PHONE_NUMBER>010100101101.
For each piece of information that needs to be stored, the computer leaves a spot in its memory for that data, and when that space is not being used, the computer releases that space, so that the spot is accessed as it's needed, hence, Random Access Memory.
By doubling my computer's capacity for Random Access Memory, I can now run multiple processes, and my computer will be able to facilitate each process without breaking a sweat.
To learn more about how Memory works, I suggest looking at these great articles that go into detail about each concept I brought up, and has a few fun exercises you can do to better understand Binary code, Bytes, and RAM. Explain That Stuff - How computer memory works
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In the electrostatic particle simulation, the electric ﬁeld is determined by the particle distribution and thus no initial condition for the electric ﬁeld is needed. The equilibrium distribution function can be chosen to various forms to investigate diﬀerent physical problems. In this note, a Maxwellian distribution and a two-stream Maxwellian distribution will be chosen to demonstrate the Landau damping and the two-stream instability, respectively. In the total-f simulation, the noise associated with the initial sampling of the phase space can provide initial perturbations for some physical instabilities (e.g. two-stream instability) to develop from the equilibrium state. In this case, we do not need to impose perturbation manually. However, for other cases where instability is weak or the perturbations are damping (e.g. Landau damping), manual perturbation to the particle weight is needed. In the δf simulation, we do need to manually impose perturbation on the equilibrium state. i.e. set δf to nonzero value. Otherwise δf will be always zero.


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Jehova's Witnesses and Christianity
What do you say to them? I'm usually very open minded about things but they have the habit of coming when i'm really busy! I never am rude to them, like shutting the door as some people do, but when you say you don't believe in God they try to convert you on your doorstep. Whilst writing this I think i've realised what to say to them - "Yes, I believe in God" . Just what do you do when they visit?
When he asked why I believed in science rather than God, (due to the complete complexity of life and the improbability of science actually creating everything we have today - there's an equation somewhere about the probability of alien life occuring, but I cant remember who did it. Im sure Bose will tell me ) one of my mentions was the belief that the bible or older bible stated the Earth was only 10,000 years old.To which he looked puzzled and said that it doesn't believe it says that anywhere. I've never read the Bible but I have heard this somewhere, so who's right? (I guess it'll be him )
Disclaimer : I aint 'dissing' the religion in any way, just I think they should post leaflets through the doors, that way if anyone is interested, they can attend meetings. Although, they aren't as annoying as the door-to-door salesmen .
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with AssemblyScript
AssemblyScript is a project that compiles TypeScript to WebAssembly.
The basic build command:
asc main.ts -o main.wasm
| // basically JS with some types: | |
| export function add(a: u32, b: u32): u32 { | |
| return a + b; | |
| } |
These examples aren't trying to prevent leaks, so when you actually go do something, remember to free memory.
More about how wasm-ffi handles memory in the readme.
.wasm
modules
To load a
.wasm
module, you need to fetch it from the server and then load it with
WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming
. You can do that yourself or
wasm-ffi
will do it with
.fetch(url)
.
For AssemblyScript module's you'll need to set the dialect
option so wasm-ffi will know how to handle strings and arrays.
| import { Wrapper } from 'wasm-ffi'; | |
| // WebAssembly function you want to wrap will go here | |
| const library = new Wrapper({ | |
| // do_thing: [return_type, [arg_type_1. arg_type_2]] | |
| }, { | |
| // need to set option for assemblyscript | |
| dialect: 'assemblyscript', | |
| ]}); | |
| library.fetch('main.wasm').then(() => { | |
| // library is now loaded and you can call your wrapped WebAssembly functions: | |
| // library.do_thing() | |
| }); |
.wasm
Requirements
wasm-ffi
can read data from WebAssembly memory without any changes to your module. You can
read strings, read struct fields, modify existing struct fields, etc.
If your JavaScript needs to allocate any memory (passing strings,
making structs) you need to expose allocate
&
deallocate
functions.
| import 'allocator/buddy'; | |
| export function allocate(size: usize): usize { | |
| return allocate_memory(size); | |
| } | |
| export function deallocate(ptr: usize): void { | |
| free_memory(ptr); | |
| } |
The format for wrapping functions is:
functionName: [returnType, [...argTypes]]
Ex: the say
function takes a string pointer and returns a string pointer:
['string', ['string']]
| // wrap our exported C function `say`: | |
| const library = new Wrapper({ | |
| say: ['string', ['string']], | |
| }); | |
| library.fetch('main.wasm').then(() => { | |
| // call `say` on btn click: | |
| $('#say-hello').addEventListener('click', () => { | |
| alert(library.say('Hello')); | |
| }); | |
| }); |
wasm-ffi
supports ArrayBuffers & TypedArrays as an argument type. It will write the arrays
to memory and pass the pointer to your
.wasm
function.
By default the array will be freed after the function returns.
| const library = new Wrapper({ | |
| get_sum: ['number', ['array']], | |
| }); | |
| // ... | |
| $('#get-sum').addEventListener('click', () => { | |
| const arr = new U32Array([1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21]); | |
| const sum = library.get_sum(arr); | |
| $('#sum-log').innerText = `Sum of ${arr} is: ${sum}`; | |
| }); |
A
Pointer
object encapsulates a reference to wasm memory.
.ref()
: get memory address.deref()
: get data.set(value)
: set pointers value.free()
: free from wasm memory
Create a new pointer with
new Pointer(type, value)
.
| import { types, Pointer } from 'wasm-ffi'; | |
| const library = new Wrapper({ | |
| get_pointer: [types.pointer('u32')], | |
| pass_pointer: ['number', [types.pointer('u32')]], | |
| }); | |
| // ... | |
| $('#get-pointer').addEventListener('click', () => { | |
| const ptr = library.get_pointer(); | |
| $('#pointer-log').innerText = `Value ${ptr.deref()} is located @ ${ptr.ref()}`; | |
| }); | |
| $('#pass-pointer').addEventListener('click', () => { | |
| const ptr = new ffi.Pointer('u32', 365); | |
| const value = library.pass_pointer(ptr); | |
| $('#pointer-log').innerText = `Wasm read ${value} from the pointer you sent`; | |
| }); |
wasm-ffi
wraps struct pointers into objects that let you access fields.
To use a struct you first have to define a struct type. The order of the properties should be the same as
your AssemblyScript definition. Use this new Struct
type in your wrapped function signatures.
You can get the memory address of a struct with
.ref()
and you can free it from memory with
.free()
| import { Struct } from 'wasm-ffi'; | |
| // define a new struct type: Person | |
| const Person = new Struct({ | |
| name: 'string', | |
| age: 'u8', | |
| favorite_number: 'u32', | |
| }); | |
| const library = new Wrapper({ | |
| get_person: [Person], | |
| person_facts: ['string', [Person]], | |
| }); | |
| // ... | |
| $('#get-person').addEventListener('click', () => { | |
| const p = library.get_person(); | |
| const about = `${p.name} is ${p.age}. His favorite number is ${p.favorite_number}.`; | |
| $('#person-log').innerText = about; | |
| }); | |
| $('#modify-person').addEventListener('click', () => { | |
| // modify the properties of a struct: | |
| const p = library.get_person(); | |
| p.age = 255; | |
| p.favorite_number = 100; | |
| $('#person-log').innerText = `New age: ${p.age}\n`; | |
| $('#person-log').innerText += `New favorite: ${p.favorite_number}\n`; | |
| $('#person-log').innerText += library.person_facts(p); | |
| }); |
A struct definition (like above) is also a constructor you can use to make new structs from JS. Any struct made in JS will get written to memory the first time it is used in a WebAssembly function.
| const Person = new Struct({ | |
| name: 'string', | |
| age: 'u8', | |
| favorite_number: 'u32', | |
| }); | |
| // ... | |
| $('#make-person').addEventListener('click', () => { | |
| const name = $('#name').value; | |
| const age = parseInt($('#age').value); | |
| const num = parseInt($('#num').value); | |
| const person = new Person({ | |
| name: name, | |
| age: age, | |
| favorite_number: num, | |
| }); | |
| $('#make-log').innerText = library.person_facts(person); | |
| }); |
To call a JS function from AssemblyScript you need to
import the JS function into your wasm module. These functions
need to be in the env
namespace.
| // `barrel_roll` will call the `rotate` function below | |
| const library = new Wrapper({ | |
| barrel_roll: [], // no arguments | |
| }); | |
| // this needs to be done before `library.fetch('main.wasm')` | |
| library.imports({ | |
| env: { | |
| rotate: function() { | |
| $('body').classList.toggle('rotate'); | |
| }, | |
| }, | |
| }); | |
| // ... | |
| $('#barrel-roll').addEventListener('click', () => { | |
| library.barrel_roll(); | |
| }); |
You can also wrap imported functions using the same notation as with a
Wrapper
. The last argument is the function to wrap. This will convert the inputs and outputs
of the function to the right types.
| // `multiply_input` will call `get_input_value` below: | |
| const library = new Wrapper({ | |
| multiply_input: ['number', ['string']], | |
| }); | |
| // change imports to a callback to expose the wrap fn | |
| // (remember to return an object here with the extra parenthesis: `({ ... })`) | |
| library.imports(wrap => ({ | |
| env: { | |
| // ... | |
| // `get_input_value` takes a string and returns a number | |
| get_input_value: wrap(['number', ['string']], (selector) => { | |
| return parseInt($(selector).value); | |
| }), | |
| }, | |
| })); | |
| // ... | |
| $('#multiply').addEventListener('click', () => { | |
| // gets the <input>.value and multiplies it by 2 | |
| const number = library.multiply_input('body #number'); | |
| $('#multiply-log').innerText = `Result: ${number}`; | |
| }); |


"Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" (1999) Reviewed by Christian Pyle Directed by Mike Mitchell Written by Harris Goldberg and Rob Schneider Starring Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, and Oded Fehr Grade: C-
Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) cleans fish tanks. Yeah, I didn't know that was a real job either. One of his customers is Antoine LeConte (Oded Fehr), a successful gigolo. When Antoine has to go to Sweden for three weeks, he lets Deuce use his house to look after an ailing $800 fish. Fooling around, Deuce sets fire to the kitchen and smashes a $6000 fish tank. After taking a try at one of Antoine's clients and earning $10, Deuce decides to prostitute himself to raise the money to replace the fish tank before the fiery-tempered Antoine returns.
Enter T. J. (Eddie Griffin), a pimp for "man-whores," who arranges for Deuce to service an assortment of women whose imperfections keep them from dating.  There's Claire (Gail O'Grady) whose narcolepsy causes her to fall asleep every few minutes. Tina (Torsten Voges) is so tall her face doesn't fit on the screen, and Ruth (Amy Poehler) has Tourette's Syndrome and shouts obscenities without warning. Finally there's Kate (Arija Bareikis) whose sorority sisters secretly paid her fare. She seems perfect, and Deuce quickly falls in love with her. (She does, we discover later, have an imperfection, but Deuce decides it isn't important.)
Deuce's life is complicated by a bothersome cop (William Forsythe) looking for information on Antoine and by Kate's discovery of his man-whoring. However, neither threat generates much suspense. The formula is so familiar that we know how it will end from the start.
"Deuce Bigalow" is the first project from Adam Sandler's company Happy Madison, the formation of which assures that we'll be seeing the Sandler style of comedy mass-produced at an increasing rate in years to come. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
The good news is that Sandler doesn't actually appear in "Deuce" and that Rob Schneider and Eddie Griffin are funnier than Sandler. Schneider has a sweetness that makes the clueless but good-hearted Deuce believable. Griffin's delivery is dead-on, especially in the coining of "technical terms" for T. J.'s profession, as in "Don't make me he-bitch man-slap you!"
There's the expected amount of toilet humor in "Deuce." (For one thing, Deuce's dad is a men's room attendant). Does anyone over the age of eight actually find bowel movements that funny? For most of us, I think that childhood fascination with bodily functions disappears when we hit the far-side of puberty and discover how funny sex is. I, for one, will be glad when the toilet trend is finally flushed.
Bottom line: "Deuce" doesn't offer anything new but it is intermittently funny.
© 2000 Christian L. Pyle
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At MIT, computer clusters are called Athena clusters (after Project Athena). In ⊥IW, they're called Minerva clusters, as indicated by signage and various pieces of NPC dialogue. These names refer to a corresponding pair of Greek and Roman goddesses.
The first step of the puzzle is to notice that each answer is composed of two Greek or Latin roots. If solvers translate these roots from one language to the other, they will notice that they are the roots of another English word. For example, we can translate the Greek derived PHOSPHORUS (PHOS = light, PHEREIN = carry) to the Latin derived LUCIFER (LUX = light, FERRE = carry). In some cases the English word pairs are semantically distant, but they all have the same etymological meaning.
Next we need to find an ordering for our answers. Solvers may notice that the puzzle titles all start with the letters A-G. Separating out the puzzles with Greek and Latin roots, we can order the puzzles alphabetically by the appropriate alphabet. For the Latin puzzles this is just A B C D E F, because the Latin alphabet is similar to the one used in modern English. For the Greek puzzles we use the Greek alphabet, and so we order our puzzles by A(lpha) B(eta) G(amma) D(elta) E(psilon).
The next step is to use the source locations of the puzzles. Solvers found each puzzle in a Minerva cluster location in buildings 1, 3, 4, or 10 using the projection device. Indexing into the translated and ordered answers by building number gives ULTRA from the Latin derived words and GLOSSA from the Greek derived words. Respectively, these are the Latin word for "beyond" and the Greek word for "tongue.” Translating each extracted word to the other language, we get META and LINGUA. The derived English word is the person who can help us connect the Athena and Minerva clusters — a METALINGUIST.
Note that in the table below, there may be several translations of an answer that all have the correct etymology. For example, PALINDROME could map to RECURSION, RECURRENCE, or RECUR and its inflections. We prefer translations that have the same part of speech as the original answer. The extraction indices are early enough in the translated words that extraction should be unambiguous.
| Puzzle | Answer | Location | Root 1 | Root 2 | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | PALINDROME | Building 4 | PALIN (backward) RE | DROMEIN (run) CURRERE | RECURRENCE |
| B | PHOSPHORUS | Building 1 | PHOS (light) LUX | PHEREIN (carry) FERRE | LUCIFER |
| G | ORTHOGONAL | Building 4 | ORTHOS (straight) RECTUS | GONIA (angle) ANGULUS | RECTANGULAR |
| D | CHIROPRACTOR | Building 10 | CHEIRON (hand) MANUS | PRATTEIN (do) FACERE | MANUFACTURER |
| E | SYNCHRONOUS | Building 10 | SYN (with) CUM | CHRONOS (time) TEMPUS | CONTEMPORARY |
| A | INSCRIPTION | Building 4 | IN (upon) EPI | SCRIBERE (write) GRAPHEIN | EPIGRAPH |
| B | MULTIPART | Building 3 | MULTUS (many) POLYS | PARS (part) MEROS | POLYMER |
| C | SUPPOSITORY | Building 4 | SUB (under) HYPO | PONERE (put) TITHENAI | HYPOTHESIS |
| D | CARNIVORE | Building 1 | CARNIS (meat) SARX | VORARE (eat) PHAGEIN | SARCOPHAGUS |
| E | MALFORMATION | Building 3 | MALUS (bad) DYS | FORMA (shape) MORPHE | DYSMORPHIA |
| F | AVERSION | Building 1 | A (away) APO | VERTERE (turn) STREPHEIN | APOSTROPHE |


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API Design Considerations
A discussion of Joshua Bloch's, "How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters"
Created by Brandon Rockhold / @brandonrockhold
Credit & Sources
- Original Author:
- Sources:
Presentation Goals
- Cover as many API design "bumper sticker" bullet points as possible during our hour
- Collaborative discussion of first-hand usage of good and bad APIs (keep it clean...)
- Raise awareness of and interest in designing good APIs (as opposed to just writing classes and methods)
Why Does API Design Matter?
All Programmers are API Designers
- Everything we write COULD be reused
- Much of what we write IS reused
- Directly through reusable components
- Indirectly through design examples (or even copy & paste)
- All public-facing code HAS an API whether you consider it as such or not
APIs Can Be Among Your Greatest Assets or Liabilities
- Good API design can ease the process of maintaining or enhancing code, allowing us to move faster
- Bad API design can cause support nightmares, leading to inability to focus on strategic projects and ultimately missed deadlines
Public APIs are Forever
- Non-passive changes are infrequently a viable option
- Rewrites are very costly (and also not typically viable) for the API designer as well as for consumers
- Essentially, only one chance to get the design right
Characterstics of Good APIs
They're Just Plain Easy...
- Requires minimal effort to learn how to use
- Easy to read
- Easy to use for simple/common scenarios
- Easy to maintain (by original authors, or their successors)
Hard to Misuse
- Prevent incorrect usage...
- ...at compile time through strongly typed arguments and return values, and generics as appropriate
- ...at runtime through usage of exceptions
- Good Examples:
- Doesn't allow Object type if it requires something more specific
- Doesn't permit improper execution order of methods
Self-Documenting
- Rarely requires usage of documentation
- APIs just make sense & behave as expected
- Bad Examples:
- Need to refer to documentation to figure out how to do anything, even if already used the API before
- Need to read through all documentation to determine how things
Gather API Design Requirements with (Healthy) Skepticism
- Beware of requirements providing implementation solutions
- Ensure that any provided solutions are the best solutions
- Ensure you understand the intended use-case, not just what is being asked for in requirements
Early Drafts of APIs Should be Short
- Create brief drafts of APIs early on and put them up for review
- Ensure enough of a specification exists to allow reviews to understand purpose of API and how it would be consumed
- DO NOT include implementation details in an API review
Code Use-Cases Against APIs Before Implementing It
- While designing API, write code against it to ensure it reads/flows like you'd expect
- Could be unit tests or source code that will be consuming API
- May prevent unnecessary implementation efforts
- Update this code as API design evolves in order to prevent late surprises
Example Code Should be Exemplary
- If providing example code in documentation, ensure that it is well-written and defect free
- Such code will likely be the basis for LOTS of use-cases that follow
Expect API Design Mistakes
- You can't anticipate all needs of an API
- Design such that it can evolve over time gracefully
API Design is Not a Solitary Activity
- Show your designs to others to get feedback
- May uncover flows you haven't considered
Names Matter
- This CANNOT be overstated...
- You MUST spend time thinking about names
- Choose something initially, but be willing to evolve it over time in order to improve it (before release)
If It's Hard to Find Good Names, Go Back to the Drawing Board
- This may be a sign that you are trying to do too much in a class or method
- Consider whether logic should be extracted out into separate classes or methods; evaluate name possibilities for each if you were to do so
When In Doubt, Leave It Out
- It's much easier to expand an API over time than to remove something
- Keep API focused to ease learning and usage of it
Keep APIs Free of Implementation Details
- Avoid leaking knowledge of one implementation into API specifications (code or documentation)
- Failure to do so ties the API to that implementation and limits flexibility
- Bad examples:
- Adding API that is only needed for one implementation, but which could ultimately be part of that implementation itself rather than part of the API
- Writing API to use implementation rather than interface
- Writing an API for a view which leaks details about implementation usage of UI controls
Documentation Matters
- While APIs themselves should be written such that the need for documentation is minimized, all public APIs SHOULD be documented
- If you're going to do it, do it well; quality of documentation can give a positive or negative impression regarding anticipated quality of code
APIs Must Coexist Peacefully with Platforms
- Be consistent with platform APIs
- If uplifting APIs from one platform to another, DO NOT blindly translate those APIs
- What is appropriate for one language/platform may not be appropriate for another
Minimize Accessibility
- EVERYTHING should be as hidden as possible
- Start with private and move upward ONLY if necessary
- Keep classes in "internal" packages if not necessary to be consumed outside of project itself
- Once it is out there, removing it may not be an option
Minimize Mutability
- Mutable state leads to complexity and bugs
- Keep things immutable if possible
- If it makes sense to be mutable, though, don't force consumers to create new instances just so they can update one or two fields
- If necessary, provide a copy constructor to ease the process of creating a new instance from an immutable object
Subclass Only When Every Instance Is-An Instance of the Parent
- Overuse of inheritance can lead to brittle, confusing code
- Do not use inheritance purely for reuse of implementation code
- Consider composition as an alternative to inheritance
Design and Document for Inheritance or Prohibit It
- Described as "controversial" by Joshua...
- If not intending for a class to be subclassed, can make it final in order to prevent it
- May be particularly important if some aspect of the class' implementation would make inheritance difficult to do successfully
- Doing so may make testing more difficult if creating mock implementations in tests, so keep this in mind
Don't Make the Client Do Anything the Library Could Do
- Reduce the need for boilerplate code, which is prone to copy & paste mistakes
- Provide APIs for performing common actions, or retrieving commonly useful data, in order to prevent weird or tedious calls to retrieve desired data
Obey the Principle of Least Astonishment
- Don't surprise your users!!!
- Bad example:
- Providing a 'get...' method which ultimately causes some internal state to be modified
Fail Fast
- Notify of failures as soon as possible
- Compile time failures are best (with static typing and generics)
- If runtime failures, don't fail silently at the point of the problem and then allow things to blow up downstream in unpredictable ways
Overload with Care
- Avoid ambiguous overloadings with same arg types but different orders
- Avoid overloaded methods which have suprisingly different behaviors
- Bad example:
- An overloaded API to reject param values if null, but where one implementation throws an IllegalArgumentException while another prints to a console (or throws some other undocumented exception)
Use the Right Data Type for the Job
- Avoid Strings if there can be a stronger type
- Avoid using primitives where enums are more appropriate
- Consider mutability of data type
Use Consistent Parameter Ordering Across Methods
- Inconsistent ordering will lead to errors, especially if parameters are of the same type
Avoid Long Parameter Lists
- Difficult to use
- If parameters are of the same type in a long list, someone will definitely get them wrong at some point
Avoid Return Values that Require Exception Processing
- Avoid returning null values for collections or arrays
- Use empty collections/arrays instead
- Consumers WILL forget to code for those special cases, and it WILL lead to bugs
Throw Exceptions Only for Exceptional Conditions
- Do not use exceptions for normal flows
- Bad example:
- Throwing an exception when reaching the end of some processing or iteration logic to signal completion and the need for further actions (such as closing files or disposing of other resources)
Throw Unchecked Exceptions (Always?)
- Joshua Bloch recommends (at the time of this presentation) using checked exceptions for scenarios where clients can recover
- Other experts in the community have moved away from checked exceptions entirely
- Internally, we have moved to using only unchecked exceptions, but utilizing the throws clause (as well as exception documentation) to help distinguish unchecked exceptions that indicate programmer error versus recoverable situations
Conclusion
- Think in terms of APIs, not just code
- Don't just follow these principles blindly, but don't violate them without good reason
- Anticipate the need to evolve APIs over time


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2 bowls |
smoked |
Leonurus sibiricus |
(leaves) |
I had been growing my marijuanilla plant for about 4 months. It had arrived as a scrawny little bundle of stems from a mail order herbal shop. My girl had responded well to my loving attention, and grown into a 2 foot tall bushy young lady by this time. By the end of the season, she would become 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide.
I had saved up about an ounce total of dried green leaves. I had smoked a few before, but this is the time that I am choosing to write about. It was a warm spring afternoon in South Carolina. I had ridden my motor scooter down to the lake, and now I was sitting on the concrete ramp that formed the boat launch. The sun was hanging low over the trees surrounding the lake. It was a beautiful sight. I put a big pinch of marijuanilla into my woooden pipe and took a big hit. I held it in as long as I could. Then I exhaled, rested and took another. I smoked the bowl in 4 big hits. My mind began to feel light and slightly dizzy. I could feel my nerves and muscles relaxing. It felt like a light buzz off of cannabis. I loaded up a second bowl and smoked what as well. I now felt like a medium to heavy buzz, quite similar to what a plant of this name would be expected to deliver.
I sat cross legged and looked out across the water. The sun gradually began to set, and the sky became a dazzling oil painting of orange, red, yellow and purple. I had a wonderfully enhanced perception of the beauty that God created. It was wonderful and dreamy.
The buzz lasted about 2 hours, and after that, I felt relaxed and calm. I enjoyed the afterglow of the marijuanilla until I went to sleep that night. I dreamed sweetly, and awoke refreshed the next morning. I now make sure to always keep some of this wonderful herb on hand.
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| triandrus triandra triandrum | 3 stamens | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| aner | andr | noun/m | ανηρ, ανδροϛ man; male; husband | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Elatine triandra Schkuhr Chrysobalanus triandrus (Sw.) Morales | ||||
| triangularis triangularis triangulare | triangular | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| angularis | angular | adj | with handles or corners, angular | |
| Talinum triangulare (Jacq.) Willd. Pityrogramma triangularis (Kaulfuss) Maxon | ||||
| triangulatus triangulata triangulatum | triangular | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| angulatus | angulat | adj | with angles; angular | |
| Callirhoe triangulata A.Gray | ||||
| trianthophorus trianthophora trianthophorum | bearing 3 flowers | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| anthos | anth | noun/n | ανϑοϛ flower | |
| o | o | cnct | connective vowel in botanical Latin, usually for Greek words but in some cases, such as color tingeing, for Latin words | |
| phoros | phor | apar | phoreo φορεω (φερω) to carry, bring | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Triphora trianthophora (Sw.) Rydb. | ||||
| trichocalyx trichocalyces | hairy calyxed | |||
| thrix | trich | noun/f | ϑριξ, τριχοϛ hair, wool, bristle | |
| o | o | cnct | connective vowel in botanical Latin, usually for Greek words but in some cases, such as color tingeing, for Latin words | |
| calyx | calyc | noun/f | καλυξ, υκοϛ husk, covering, calyx | |
| Romneya trichocalyx Eastw. | ||||
| trichocarpus trichocarpa trichocarpum | hairy fruits | |||
| thrix | trich | noun/f | ϑριξ, τριχοϛ hair, wool, bristle | |
| o | o | cnct | connective vowel in botanical Latin, usually for Greek words but in some cases, such as color tingeing, for Latin words | |
| carpos | carp | noun/m | καρποϛ fruit | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Carex trichocarpa Muhl. ex Willd. Hedysarum trichocarpum Stephan ex Willd. | ||||
| trichogynus trichogyna trichogynum | hairy ovaries | |||
| thrix | trich | noun/f | ϑριξ, τριχοϛ hair, wool, bristle | |
| o | o | cnct | connective vowel in botanical Latin, usually for Greek words but in some cases, such as color tingeing, for Latin words | |
| gyne | gyn | noun/f | γυνε woman, lady; wife; mistress; widow | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| trichomanes trichomana | a Greek fern name | |||
| trichomanes | trichoman | noun/n | τριχομανεϛ a maiden hair fern, perhaps Asplenium trichomanes | |
| Asplenium trichomanes L. | ||||
| trichophyllus trichophylla trichophyllum | hairy leaves | |||
| thrix | trich | noun/f | ϑριξ, τριχοϛ hair, wool, bristle | |
| o | o | cnct | connective vowel in botanical Latin, usually for Greek words but in some cases, such as color tingeing, for Latin words | |
| phyllon | phyll | noun/n | φυλλον leaf; foliage | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Chrysopsis trichophylla (Nutt.) Ell. Batrachium trichophyllum (Chaix) F.W. Schultz Drepanocladus trichophyllus (Warnst.) Podp. | ||||
| trichotomus trichotoma trichotomum | branching into 3 | |||
| trichotomos | trichotom | ppar | trichotomeo τριχοτομεω to cut in three | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Euphorbia trichotoma Kunth Clerodendrum trichotomum Thunb. Galarhoeus trichotomus (Kunth) Small | ||||
| tricoccum tricocca | something with three seeds | |||
| tricoccum | tricocc | noun/n | τρικοκκον something with three seeds; Pliny: heliotrope | |
| Allium tricoccum Soland. | ||||
| tricolor tricolores | 3 colored | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| color | color | noun | color | |
| Gilia tricolor Benth. | ||||
| tricoloris tricolorum | of three color(s) | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| generative of color | color | noun | color | |
| tricornis tricornis tricorne | 3 horned | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| cornis | corn | adj/ | cornu horn, antler | |
| is adjectival suffix | ||||
| Delphinium tricorne Michx. Paullinia tricornis Radlk. | ||||
| tricuspidatus tricuspidata tricuspidatum | 3 pointed | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| cuspis | cuspid | noun/f | point; spear, stinger | |
| atus | at | adj | adjectival suffix for nouns: possessive of or likeness of something (with, shaped, made)/ for verb participles: a completed action, -ed | |
| Ampelopsis tricuspidata Sieb. & Zucc. Pelargonium x tricuspidatum L'Her. | ||||
| tridentatus tridentata tridentatum | 3 toothed | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| dens | dent | noun/m | tooth | |
| atus | at | adj | adjectival suffix for nouns: possessive of or likeness of something (with, shaped, made)/ for verb participles: a completed action, -ed | |
| Artemisia tridentata Nutt. Hieracium tridentatum (Fries) Fries Convolvulus tridentatus L. | ||||
| trifidus trifida trifidum | 3 divisions | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| fidus | fid | ppar | findo to cleave, split, separate, divide | |
| Mitella trifida Graham Galium trifidum L. Convolvulus trifidus Kunth | ||||
| triflorus triflora triflorum | 3 flowered | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| florus | flor | ppar | floreo to bloom, to flower | |
| Calyptranthes triflora Alain Geum triflorum Pursh Cytisus triflorus L'Her. | ||||
| trifoliatus trifoliata trifoliatum | 3 leaved | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| foliatus | foliat | adj | provided with or having leaves | |
| Gillenia trifoliata (L.) Moench Silphium trifoliatum L. Porteranthus trifoliatus (L.) Britt. | ||||
| trifoliolatus trifoliolata trifoliolatum | trifoliolate | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| folium | foli | noun/n | leaf | |
| olus | ol | noun/m | substantive suffix for 1st & 2nd declention nouns: diminutive | |
| atus | at | adj | adjectival suffix for nouns: possessive of or likeness of something (with, shaped, made)/ for verb participles: a completed action, -ed | |
| Berberis trifoliolata Moric. Nabalus trifoliolatus Cass. | ||||
| trifolius trifolia trifolium | 3 leaves | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| folius | foli | adj | folium leaf | |
| Anemone trifolia L. Erodium trifolium Cav. Panax trifolius L. | ||||
| trifurcatus trifurcata trifurcatum | forked into three | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| furca | furc | noun/f | a fork | |
| atus | at | adj | adjectival suffix for nouns: possessive of or likeness of something (with, shaped, made)/ for verb participles: a completed action, -ed | |
| Artemisia trifurcata Steph. ex Spreng. Gossypium trifurcatum Vollesen Lupinus trifurcatus C.P. Sm. | ||||
| trigintipetalus trigintipetala trigintipetalum | 30 petals | |||
| triginta | trigint | adj | thirty | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| petalum | petal | noun/n | πεταλον Mod L petal (Gk: leaf, tablet) | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| trigonus trigona trigonum | 3 angled | |||
| trigonus | trigon | adj | τριγωνοϛ three angled, triangular | |
| Anhalonium trigonum F. A. C. Weber Cereus trigonus Haw. | ||||
| trigynus trigyna trigynum | 3 ovaries | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| gyne | gyn | noun/f | γυνε woman, lady; wife; mistress; widow | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Alternanthera trigyna L. Arenaria trigynum (Vill.) Shinners | ||||
| trilobatus trilobata trilobatum | 3 lobed | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| lobatus | lobat | adj | NL lobed | |
| Rhus trilobata Nutt. Silphium trilobatum L. Dolichos trilobatus L. | ||||
| trilobus triloba trilobum | 3 lobes | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| lobus | lob | noun/m | λοβοϛ Late L Greek: lobe of the ear; late Latin: husk, pod | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal Viburnum trilobum Marsh. Cocculus trilobus (Thunb.) DC. | ||||
| trimestris trimestris trimestre | of 3 months | |||
| trimestris | trimestr | adj | of or pertaining to 3 months | |
| Lavatera trimestris L. | ||||
| trinervatus trinervata trinervatum | 3 veined | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| nervus | nerv | noun/m | νευρον a sinew, tendon, nerve | |
| atus | at | adj | adjectival suffix for nouns: possessive of or likeness of something (with, shaped, made)/ for verb participles: a completed action, -ed | |
| Viola trinervata (T.J.Howell) T.J.Howell ex Gray Pediomelum trinervatum Rydb. | ||||
| trinervius trinervia trinervium | 3veined | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| nervus | nerv | noun/m | νευρον a sinew, tendon, nerve | |
| ius | i | adj | -ιοϛ adjective suffix for nouns: characteristic of, connected to, resembling, when related to -eus: of..., ...like | |
| Marshallia trinervia (Walt.) Trel. Phoradendron trinervium (Lam.) Griseb. Phaseolus trinervius Wight & Arnott | ||||
| triornithophorus triornithophora triornithophorum | 3 birdlike leaves | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| ornis | ornith | noun/c | ορνισ, ιϑοϛ a bird | |
| o | o | cnct | connective vowel in botanical Latin, usually for Greek words but in some cases, such as color tingeing, for Latin words | |
| phoros | phor | apar | phoreo φορεω (φερω) to carry, bring | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| tripartitus tripartita tripartitum | 3 parts | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| partitus | partit | ppar | partio to part, apportion, divide | |
| Calceolaria tripartita Ruiz & Pavon Philodendron tripartitum (Jacq.) Schott | ||||
| tripetalus tripetala tripetalum | 3 petaled | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| petalum | petal | noun/n | πεταλον Mod L petal (Gk: leaf, tablet) | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Magnolia tripetala (L.) L. | ||||
| triphyllus triphylla triphyllum | 3 leaved | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| phyllon | phyll | noun/n | φυλλον leaf; foliage | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Achlys triphylla (Sm.) DC. Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott Penstemon triphyllus Dougl. ex Lindl. | ||||
| triplinervis triplinervis triplinerve | 3 veined | |||
| triplus | tripl | adj | τριπλουϛ triple, threefold | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| nervus | nerv | noun/m | νευρον a sinew, tendon, nerve | |
| is | adj | adjectival suffix | ||
| Eupatorium triplinerve Vahl Ayapana triplinervis (Vahl) King & H.E. Robins. | ||||
| triplinervius triplinervia triplinervium | three veined | |||
| triplus | tripl | adj | τριπλουϛ triple, threefold | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| nervus | nerv | noun/m | νευρον a sinew, tendon, nerve | |
| ius | i | adj | -ιοϛ adjective suffix for nouns: characteristic of, connected to, resembling, when related to -eus: of..., ...like | |
| Bidens triplinervia Kunth | ||||
| triquetrus triquetra triquetrum | 3 angled | |||
| triquetrus | triquetr | adj | with 3 corners, triangular | |
| Boerhavia triquetra S. Wats. Allium triquetrum L. | ||||
| triradiatus triradiata triradiatum | three rayed | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| radiatus | radiat | ppar | with rays; shining | |
| Bupleurum triradiatum Adams | ||||
| trisectus trisecta trisectum | trisected | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| sectus | sect | ppar | seco to cut, cut off, cut up; divide, separate | |
| tristichus tristicha tristichum | in 3 rows | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| stichos | stich | adj | στιχοϛ a row or line of things | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Meesia tristicha Bruch Eriogonum tristichum Small | ||||
| tristis tristis triste | dull, sad | |||
| tristis | trist | adj | sad, sorrowful, gloomy | |
| Pelargonium triste (L.) L'Her. Gladiolus tristis L. | ||||
| triternatus triternata triternatum | three times divided into three | |||
| tri | tri | pre | tres three | |
| ternus | tern | adj | in three's | |
| atus | at | adj | adjectival suffix for nouns: possessive of or likeness of something (with, shaped, made)/ for verb participles: a completed action, -ed | |
| Aquilegia triternata Payson Lomatium triternatum (Pursh) Coult. & Rose | ||||
| triumphans triumphantis triumphante | splendid | |||
| triumphans | triumphant | padj | triumphal | |
| Rhododendron triumphans Yersin & A. Chev. | ||||
| truncatus truncata truncatum | squarely cut off | |||
| truncatus | truncat | ppar | trunco to main, cut off | |
| Nothofagus truncata (Colenso) Cockayne Epiphyllum truncatum Haw. Carduus truncatus Greene | ||||
| tsugifolius tsugifolia tsugifolium | Tsuga leaved | |||
| tsuga | tsug | noun/f | Jap. Japanese name for hemlock spruce | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| folius | foli | adj | folium leaf | |
| tubaeformis tubaeformis tubaeforme | trumpet shaped | |||
| tuba | tub | noun/f | a straight trumpet as opposed to the curved 'cornu' | |
| ae | ae | cnct | connective vowel sometimes used by botanical Latin instead of 'i' to distinguish between two words with the same root, e.g. tuba (trumpet) and tubus (tube); in some cases 'ae' is incorrectly used because it is the genitive singular suffix of the preceeding word but it should be corrected to 'i' | |
| formis | form | adj | in botanical Latin a substantive suffix for nouns derived from 'forma': to be in the form or shape of... | |
| Fritillaria tubaeformis Gren. & Godr. | ||||
| tubatus tubata tubatum | trumpet like | |||
| tuba | tub | noun/f | a straight trumpet as opposed to the curved 'cornu' | |
| atus | at | adj | adjectival suffix for nouns: possessive of or likeness of something (with, shaped, made)/ for verb participles: a completed action, -ed | |
| tuberculatus tuberculata tuberculatum | with tubercles, bumps | |||
| tuberculum | tubercul | noun/n | a small bump or swelling | |
| atus | at | adj | adjectival suffix for nouns: possessive of or likeness of something (with, shaped, made)/ for verb participles: a completed action, -ed | |
| Acnida tuberculata Moq. Piper tuberculatum Jacq. Amaranthus tuberculatus (Moq.) Sauer | ||||
| tuberculifer tuberculifera tuberculiferum | with tubercles, bumps | |||
| tuberculum | tubercul | noun/n | a small bump or swelling | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| fer | fer | apar | fero to bear, carry, bring | |
| Perstusaria tuberculifera Nyl. | ||||
| tuberculosus tuberculosa tuberculosum | with tubercles, bumps | |||
| tuberculum | tubercul | noun/n | a small bump or swelling | |
| osus | os | adj | adjective suffix for nouns: plenitude or notable development | |
| Aristida tuberculosa Nutt. Phebalium tuberculosum (F. Muell.) Benth. Eriostemon tuberculosus F. Muell. | ||||
| tuberosus tuberosa tuberosum | tuberous | |||
| tuber | tuber | noun/n | a lump, selling, tumor, hump | |
| osus | os | adj | adjective suffix for nouns: plenitude or notable development | |
| Asclepias tuberosa L. Allium tuberosum Rottl. Calopogon tuberosus (L.) B.S.P. | ||||
| tubiflorus tubiflora tubiflorum | tubular flower | |||
| tubus | tub | noun/m | a tube, pipe | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| florus | flor | ppar | floreo to bloom, to flower | |
| Kalanchoe tubiflora (Harvey) Hamet Bryophyllum tubiflorum Harvey Penstemon tubiflorus Nutt. | ||||
| tubiformis tubiformis tubiforme | tubular shaped | |||
| tubus | tub | noun/m | a tube, pipe | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| formis | form | adj | in botanical Latin a substantive suffix for nouns derived from 'forma': to be in the form or shape of... | |
| Odontonema tubiforme (Bertol.) Kuntze Sphinctrina tubiformis Massal. | ||||
| tubispathus tubispatha tubispathum | tubular spathe | |||
| tubus | tub | noun/m | a tube, pipe | |
| i | i | cnct | connective vowel used by botanical Latin | |
| spatha | spath | noun/f | σπαϑη broad double edged sword, saber | |
| us | adj | Latinizing suffix | ||
| Zephyranthes tubispatha Herbert Habranthus tubispathus (L'Her.) Traub | ||||
| tubulosus tubulosa tubulosum | with small pipes | |||
| tubulus | tubul | adj | a small pipe | |
| osus | os | adj | adjective suffix for nouns: plenitude or notable development | |
| Campanula tubulosa Lam. Hypericum tubulosum Walt. |


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Pietra Paesina is inspired by a rare and singular limestone created millions of years ago, its layered strata bearing traces of its own formation. Through a process of deconstruction and subsequent re-imagining as objects positioned in space, Julie's installation reflects upon our individual place in earth's history and addresses the impact of humankind.
Situated at the interstices of photography and sculpture, and with process and "making" embedded in her practice, Julie's work explores notions of fragility, transience, imperfection and destruction. Through an engagement with objects and materialities, she re-contextualises photographic language to create new meanings.


So I'm big on xanax. Bars are just awesome. I知 not prescribed to them so I end up paying a lot of money per bar (about 5 bucks) but it's worth it because they're just amazing. Floating, comfortable in any position, horny and happy. It's amazing. So I took a bar one night as I had been drinking. Now normally I like to mix pills and alcohol, especially xanax and alcohol, but tonight my friend came by with a bunch of nice blow. We tried it out and me and my friends each got a bag.
So 5 lines into it, I notice the xanax has completely worn off and I知 back on my paranoid cocaine feeling that I always get when I do it. No matter how much alcohol I drink, I知 just irritated and paranoid and needing more all night long. So I知 practically sober at this point except obviously I知 not, but in my head all I think is depressing and anxious thoughts, which the xanax had originally reduced tremendously.
Anyway, I continued doing my bag because it was there and just got even hornier.  I took out my bong and we smoked a few packs. That was excellent. Everything I was experiencing sort of came rushing back but it was all blurred behind a cannabis haze. So I was horny and happy and still anxious but in a good docile way and I wasn稚 really thinking paranoid things but more like disconnecting from everything for a while. Then I got my much deserved sex and passed on out. Of course I get hazy in the morning as to what the hell happened the previous night but that痴 expected with xanax taken by itself. So yeah. Great night.
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NAVFIT Online is an open source project that allows you to view and edit NAVFIT98A database (.accdb) files. This website uses a publicly accessible server on the internet for functionality. This server is intended for demo purposes only.
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Please see each part's GitHub repo for directions by clicking on them.NAVFIT98A is a Windows program created by SPAWAR that allows people to organize and edit U.S. Navy Evaluations and Fitness Reports. NAVFIT98A is available for Windows. See here for more information.
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Dominion (A Node.js Project)
A few years ago, my friends and I got really into the card game Dominion. It’s a deck building game, but what made this game more enjoyable was the variation. In each round, you randomly select 10 cards that will be available for purchase, and the goal is to try to figure out different strategies for how those cards can interact with each other. The game is available on Amazon and is playable online via the official Dominion Online site.
As a programming exercise, we attempted to create a similar game using Node.js. This post is to help me document the process we took to set up this project.
Step 1: Install Node.js
Node.js is a runtime, or a program, that executes Javascript code on a server, thus allowing users to program server-side code using Javascript. For a good description of Node.js, check out this link.
- Download and install Node.js. The installer installs the Node.js and npm, a package manager for Javascript that allows you to quickly install libraries and other components.
- Next, two libraries will be installed to help set up a server. express is used to easily instantiate the server, and socket.io is used for communication between server and client. To install, enter the following lines in a terminal
Step 2: Set up Server Code
Create a .js file for your server code (e.g. server.js). The following code sets up an initial server that runs on port 8081.
For demonstration purposes, add a html file (index.html) to a folder named public. The file structure looks like this.
- my_dir/server.js
- my_dir/public/index.html
Then, start the server… (use Ctrl+C to stop the server)
and access your file from your web browser with the following URL: http://<IP_ADDRESS>:8081
Step 3: Server Message Handling
Then, this code is used to set up message handling on the server side
Step 4: Client Message Handling
Add that to your client html page. This is served from your node server, which is available after installing socket.io.
In a corresponding client.js file, the following code can be used to handle client messaging.
Step 5: Serve Page
- Log in to your router
- Find the Port Forwarding Options
- Add a new Port Forwarding Rule… HOST DEVICE, HTTP (Web - Port 80), Forwarding to Port 8081
- Find the Router’s IP Address (usually somewhere on the main router page)
- Give out
:80 to others
References
Node.js
- https://openclassrooms.com/courses/ultra-fast-applications-using-node-js/node-js-what-is-it-for-exactly
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1884724/what-is-node-js
- http://www.programwitherik.com/getting-started-with-socket-io-node-js-and-express/